Hands-On Concurrency with Rust

Corewars

Corewars is a computer programmer game from the 1980s. Introduced in a 1984 Scientific American article, the game is a competition between two or more programs—or warriors—that are written in an obscure assembly language called Redcode. Realistically, there are effectively two variants of Redcode, one of which has nice features, such as labels or pseudo-opcodes for variable assignments. This is usually referred to as Redcode. The other variant is referred to as load file Redcode or simply load file and is a straight listening of opcodes. The machine that Redcode targets is the Memory Array Redcode Simulator (MARS). It is… peculiar. Memory is bounded and circular, the maximum address prior to wrap-around is core_size-1. Most players ...